Sentences with phrase «number of minority teachers»

That runs against efforts to increase numbers of minority teachers.

So the association is offering school districts some tips on how they might close the gap between increasing numbers of minority students and declining numbers of minority teachers.

Information on the number of minority teachers in each state is available from the Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Education.

Dandy explained that the obstacles to increasing the number of minority teachers include their ability to get into college and to afford to complete a college education.

The number of minority teachers is equally dismal.

Although the number of minority teachers more than doubled between 1987 and 2012, high turnover rates have undermined efforts to diversify the teacher workforce.

Although teacher recruitment initiatives have doubled the number of minority teachers nationally in recent decades, minorities still account for only 18 percent of today's teachers.

And The Collective, TFA's national alumni association for teachers of color, has also played a crucial role in boosting the number of minority teachers who stay in the classroom.

Although the number of students of color increases year after year, the number of minority teachers fails to keep pace.

Rosen told school board members that nationally, as in the Madison Metropolitan School District, the number of minority teachers entering the workforce is growing more slowly than the number of minority students.

The number of minority teachers in the district, while growing, is not keeping pace with the growing proportion of minority students, consultant Monica Rosen told Madison School Board members Monday.

Nationally, the number of minority teachers is increasing, but it's not keeping pace with student demographics, concludes a new report issued by a union - affiliated think tank.